Photographer's grizzly encounter with bear

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ninemsn staff

An incredible re-trending video showing an employee with Alaska's Department of Fish and Game who got a little too close to his work when he filmed a brown bear walk right up to him and calmly take a seat at his side.

Drew Hamilton, a tech worker with the department, was perched on a ridge in the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary in 2012, observing a scene of several bears fishing in a river.

The bear saunters up beside the human as though they were the same species, and looks down at the stream below them.

Moments later the bear slumps down onto the ground like it's reluctantly preparing itself to jump into the frigid water to catch a tasty fish or two.

When it's finally ready, the bear stands up and walks past the human like the man was something it sees every day of its life and wanders off.

Mr Hamilton, who was photographing the bears in the river, only has to give a solid stamp of his feet and few short heys to send the bear on its way.

The McNeil River Sanctuary protects the world's largest concentration of brown bears who fish for salmon in its rivers.

According to the Department of Fish and Game there has been as many as 74 bears seen together at one time.